UNC begins second season of series for artists

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The University of North Carolina is offering artists another chance to show their works to an audience before the play is finished.

The first offering from the Process Series is scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Gerrard Hall in Chapel Hill.

Carina Cortese will perform her one-woman play, “Afterimages of the Disappeared,” about the deaths of nine members of her mother’s family during the Dirty War in Argentina. She will tell the story of the family’s deadly struggle against the Argentine military dictatorship from 1976 through 1983.

During the series, which began last year, artistic works in progress are performed and discussed afterward by the author and audience. Several works from the inaugural series last year have had or are scheduled to have full premieres elsewhere.

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